[GaryCrow]

Anybody and everybody has known which bases have nukes in Europe for the last 40 years. It's the worst kept secret in the history of mankind. The rush to indignity whenever something like this is published is huge, but the russians have known where they're at forever.

This isn't exactly a revelation.

[pepsi_junkie]

TS is TS though. I was once in a meeting where one of my team members quoted a definition out of his college textbook (a public university in a well known and widely used textbook). It had to do with electromagnetic emissions stuff. You can find the term and definition all over the place. It's online, it's in books, it's even been released in FOIA documents.

But technically it was never downgraded and is still considered Secret and so my teammate got in trouble and we had to go through the pointless exercise of sanitizing our entire IT infrastructure of this info that is all over the internet and bookstores. Good use of resources.

[T-Bird45]

“This isn’t exactly a revelation.”

Just a look at the security and fence configuration will tell you what’s there. Just like I used to be able to pick out the weapons transport vehicles running between PanTex and Oak Ridge on I-40.

[pfflier]

We used to tell everybody it "Is against Department of Defense policy to confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons at these facilities" while standing in the middle of 200 Minuteman launch facilities in Montana.

As breathtakingly stupid as that sounds, some were shocked to see us driving around, in our blue trucks, to the sites doing maintenance .

[StAnDeliver]

"Anybody and everybody has known which bases have nukes in Europe for the last 40 years. It's the worst kept secret in the history of mankind. The rush to indignity whenever something like this is published is huge, but the russians have known where they're at forever."

So much so that this is far more likely a 'disclosure' to measure the Chinese response; as their 'reveal' last week to 'take over' Europe before 2055 was slightly original; and now some poor intel slob at EuCom just inherited a long job to piece together the PLA internal response.